Re: reiserfs: still problems with tail conversion

Chris Mason (mason@suse.com)
Sat, 24 Feb 2001 12:28:38 -0500


On Saturday, February 24, 2001 04:45:04 PM +0100 Arjan Filius
<iafilius@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I tried Erik's trigger-program.
>
> After some test i thing it's memory related, and it seems to match the
> other reports i saw on lkm.
> With my 384M ram i was not able te reproduce it.
> With "mem=32M" linux hang while starting a test oracle-db.
> However i tried (not repeated tests, and after a fresh reboot):
> ram=128M ; Triggered

Ah, I did not get it at 128M, but did get the messages at 32MB. The read
stage of the test program does not close the fd by the way, so some of the
errors were from that (but not all).

So, there must be somewhere else that we are screwing up the tail
conversion, I'll see what I can find.

-chris

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